Vulnerability management tools
The available vulnerability management tools are many, and for the sake of simplicity, this section will discuss the tools according to the phase that they are used in. Therefore, each phase will have its relevant tools discussed and their pros and cons given. It is worth noting that not all the tools discussed may deal with the vulnerabilities themselves. Their contributions are, however, very important to the whole process.
Asset inventory tools
The asset inventory phase is aimed at recording the computing assets that an organization has, so as to ease their tracking when it comes to performing updates. The following are some of the tools that can be used in this phase.
Peregrine tools
Peregrine is a software development company that was acquired by HP in 2005. It has released three of the most commonly used asset inventory tools. One of these is the asset center. It is an asset management tool that is specifically fine-tuned to meet the...